Learning and Doing MathematicsWritten for anyone keen to develop learning skills or to enhance their problem-solving powers, this resource will help readers develop their own strategies by recognizing blockages and then using the techniques of generalizing and specializing to identify routes to a solution. |
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Contents
Interlude A On Conjecturing | 7 |
Interlude B On Crystallizing | 20 |
On Expectation | 35 |
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Bibliographic information
| Title | Learning and Doing Mathematics |
| Author | John Mason |
| Edition | illustrated, reprint |
| Publisher | Macmillan Educational Corporation, 1988 |
| Original from | the University of Virginia |
| Digitized | 22 Aug 2008 |
| ISBN | 0333449428, 9780333449424 |
| Length | 82 pages |
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